Variable Codebook
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Variable Name         Storage Type    Display Format    Value Label    Variable Label
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state                 str2           %2s                              state
year                  double         %9.0g                            year
Chamber               str6           %6s                              Chamber
treatment             double         %9.0g                            Indicator for adoption of cameras
count                 double         %9.0g                            count--used to process data, can be ignored
total_intro           double         %9.0g                            Total number of bills and res introduced in state-year
total_enact           double         %9.0g                            Total number of bills and res enacted in state-year
veto                  double         %9.0g                            Total number of bills and res vetoed in state-year
election_year         double         %9.0g                            Indicator for House or Senate elections in state-year
divided_gov           double         %9.0g                            Indicator for divided gov in state-year
late_budget           double         %9.0g                            Indicator that the state adopted budget late
budget_kurtosis       double         %9.0g                            Epps measure of budget kurtosis
chamber_med           double         %9.0g                            whole chamber median score
dem_median            double         %9.0g                            Democratic party median in state-chamber-year
rep_median            double         %9.0g                            Republican party median in state-chamber-year
majority_median       double         %9.0g                            Majority party median state-chamber-year
minority_median       double         %9.0g                            Minority party median state-chamber-year
dem_mean              double         %9.0g                            Democratic party mean in state-chamber-year
rep_mean              double         %9.0g                            Republican party mean in state-chamber-year
diffs                 double         %9.0g                            Distance between party medians state-chamber-year
distance              double         %9.0g                            Distance between any two members, state-chamber-year, 
                                                                      shor-mccarty call it party
dem_sd                double         %9.0g                            Dem standard deviation
rep_sd                double         %9.0g                            Rep standard deviation
chamber_sd            double         %9.0g                            whole chamber-state-year standard deviation
chamber               str6           %6s                              House or Senate
mds1                  double         %9.0g                            prof. first dimensional scaling from harden and Kirkland
mds2                  double         %9.0g                            prof. second dimensional scaling from harden and Kirkland
ranney                double         %9.0g                            political competition measure
stateno               double         %9.0g                            stateno
pop_annual            long           %9.0g                            annual state population-raw
gsp_q                 long           %9.0g                            gross state product raw
legislative_temp      double         %9.0g                            legislative expenditures raw
tl                    double         %9.0g                            term limits in state
citizen_ideo          double         %9.0g                            berry measure of citizen ideology
state_ideo            double         %9.0g                            berry measure of state ideology
percentwin            double         %9.0g                            percentwin--not used in analysis
lnpop                 float          %9.0g                            annual state population--logged
lngsp                 float          %9.0g                            logged gross state product
lnexp                 float          %9.0g                            logged legislative expenditures
billprop              float          %9.0g                            proportion of introduced bills that are enacted
chamid                long           %8.0g              chamid        Chamber
state_cham            long           %9.0g              state_cham1   state_cham
dup_id                byte           %12.0g                           ID for duplicate, used to process data

Data Information:
- Dataset is sorted by: state_cham, year
- Total variables: 41